Pineapple-eye snip.



H. B. KOPF.

PINEAPPLE BYE SHIP.

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Patented Nov. 3, 1914u of Fig. 2, an

constructed with NTTED STATES PATENT os HENRY B. KOPF, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

PINEAPPLE-EYE SNIP.

Speoication of Letters Yatent.

Patented Nov. 3, 1914.

o all 'whoml it ma concern.'

Be it known tiiat I, HENRY B. Korr, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and 5 State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Im irovement in Pineapple-Eye Snips; and I cio hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters yiof reference marked thereon, to be a full, lear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in

Figure 1 a view in side elevation of a 15 pineapple-eye snip constructed in accordance with my invention, showing the jaws open. Fig. 2 an edge view of the instrument. Fig. 3 a view thereof in horizontal section throu h the jaws on the line a-b looking downward.

My invention relates to an improvement in pineapple-eye snips, the object being to provide a simple and effective instrument primarily desi ed for use in canneries, and articular reference to avoid bruisimT the ruit around the eyes and to minimize tzhe time, labor and fatigue of the operation in uestion.

iVith these en s in view, my invention consists in a pineapple-eye snip having cer- NN, tain details of construction and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

My improved instrument which has the general appearance of an ordinary pair of gripping pliers, is formed with two correspondin jaws 2, 8, located at the outer ends of bowe handles 4 and 5 secured together by a pivot 6 located at the bases of the jaws, the handle 5 being provided with a curved extension 13 offering a rest and oint of purchase for the outer edge of the and of the user. The said jaws 2 terminate at their outer ends in sharp points 7 and have i5 the outer edges of their pointed ends beveled as at 8; while the inner edges of their ends are made straight and arranged so as to shut together. The inner margins of the respective jaws are adapted to form cutting edges as the intention is that the device shall actually cut out the eyes rather than pull or tear them out. Each jaw is virtually skeletonized by the formation in it of a large clearance-opening 9 providing for the ready escape of the extracted eye in either direction. rlhe opposing side walls of the respective jaws are arranged in line with each other at or about the transverse centers of the jaws as shown by comparing Figs. 2 and 3, whereby the jaws are prevented from being fouled and straight lateral passages formed through the clearance-o enings for the discharge of the extracte pineapple-eye in either direction, as described. By pointing the jaws as at T and beveling them as at 8, the jaws may be thrust into the fruit over the eyes thereof so as to make a clean cut without bruising the fruit about the eyes; while by furnishing each jaw with a relatively large clearance-opening the extracted eyes are left free to work out in either direction without necessity of using the wrist to give the instrument a vigorous twist to discharge the extracted eyes from the snip, whereby the time, labor and fatigue of using the instrument is greatly reduced, enabling a person to remove the eyes from a larger number of pineapples in a given time than has been possible with any of the devices at present in use for the purpose.

As shown, the handles 4, 5, are provided toward their forward ends with outwardly projecting stud-like abutments 10 which ineline slightly forward. These abutments permit the pointed jaws of the snip to be driven by a forward pressure of the hand, into the pineapple by a uick decisive movement, without closing t e handles together by gripping them, which would have the effect of prematurely closing the jaws. The handles, and hence the jaws, are normally held apart by means of a helical sprin ll interposed between the handles and iaving its end coils sleeved over retaining-pins 12, 12, projectin inward from the inner edges of the hand es, and, as shown, located in line with the inner ends of the abutments lO. It is not essential, however, that my improved instrument shall be provided with the said abutments, nor that the spring 1l shall be arranged and retained in place as shown.

I claim:

1. A pineapple-eye snip rovided with co-acting pointed jaws each aving a large elearance-(pening and having their inner margins a apte to form cutting edges for cutting out the pineapple-eyes which are' ters of the jaws to assist the discharge of then ejected transversely outward through? the pineapple-eyes outward through the the clearance-openings. i 'clearance-openings ofthe jaws.

2. A pineapple-eye snip provided with In testimony whereof, I have signed this 6 co-acting pointed and beveled jaws having specification in thepresence of two subserb- 15 their inner margins adapted to form cut:-4 ng witnesses.

ting edges and each havlng a lar e clear- HENRY B. KOPF. ance-opening, the opposing side wa s of the Witnesses: respective jaws being arranged in line with FREDERIC C. EAnLn,

10 each other at or about the transverse cen- CLARA L. WEED.

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